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The details have been fast, furious and gone in an instant this week about the sophomore release from the Dead Weather, Sea of Cowards, due May 11 via Third Man Records/Warner Bros. Records. The video for ultra-heavy first single “Die By the Drop” directed by Floria Sigismondi…

Making good on their group promise to work every day for a year (and probably more considering the personalities in question here), The Dead Weather have just announced a slew of US tour dates beginning April 15th in San Francisco, just before they are scheduled to hit Coachella on the 17th.

Not that there has been a dearth of Alison Mosshart coverage thanks to a certain Horehound she’s been chewing on as of late, but for all you Kills fans out there hoping for a sign that a creature stirs – news broke Tuesday via a blog post on the band’s official website that Mosshart and Jamie Hince have indeed reconvened to lay the framework for their next, and fourth, album.

I decided long ago when I became a Kills fan that I’d probably be happy to watch Alison Mosshart do damn near anything…as a performer. One thing I never predicted however was the sight of her eye sexing Jack White face-to-face near the close of the Dead Weather’s ridiculously incendiary performance of “Will There Be Enough Water?” on Thursday night at Manhattan’s Terminal 5 venue.

Let’s cut to the chase — this Horehound is one hell of a bitches brew. A primal, long snake moan of a Tennessee tornado warning. Indeed, those Jack Daniels-soaked Nashville back-porch nights must be somethin’ with these folks.

There sure is a lot of hope, hype and heat around this here band from Nashville, Tennessee. Something to do with a pairing of Jack White and a rascally lady named Alison Mosshart and the promise of sexually charged blues-rock freak outs, as evidenced by current single “Hang You From the Heavens.”